Starting Life a Century Ago
Alan R. Tripp, the son of a businessman and a newspaperwoman, spent his childhood between Kansas, Illinois, New York, and Missouri. Although he was never in one place for a long period, and therefore wasn’t able to establish roots in a Jewish community, he was still able to find sustenance from people who shared his religion.
“My main Jewish education is the culture, which I consider to be extremely valuable wherever you move,” he said many years later. That culture? According to Tripp, it’s “That you intend to work and intend to do a little better than everybody else because you have to.” However, he also had another passion from a young age – music.